Spain helps spur development in Quang Nam

Spain ’s Peace and Development (PyD) organisation has helped the central
province of Quang Nam carry out a project on socio-economic
development combined with gender issues.

A cooperation document to this effect was signed between the Quang Nam
provincial People’s Committee and PyD in Quang Nam province on April
27. The 3.6 million EUR project which also covers Cambodia and
East Timor was designed to ensure the implementation of socio-economic
rights and poverty reduction through a gender approach and improvement
of social equality.

It covers improving living conditions of
project beneficiaries, with a focus on the most disadvantaged, through
economic initiatives in combination with the gender issue, promoting
sustainable rural development and involvement of the beneficiaries and
relevant agencies and branches, and increasing initiatives on gender
fairness, gender equality and domestic violence reduction.

The
project targets promoting socio-economic development in rural areas,
supporting for development of traditional trades, helping increase
incomes, reducing domestic violence and raising women’s role in the
society, said Tran Minh Ca, Deputy Chairman of the Quang Nam provincial
People’s Committee.

In Quang Nam province, the project will
be carried out till 2014 in 10 communes of Duy Xuyen, Hiep Duc and Phuoc
Son districts.

Established in 1991, PyD is a non-governmental
organisation. It helped carry out a project on enhancement of capacity
and promotion of economic, microcredit opportunities and gender equality
plans in Vietnam from 2006-2010./.